CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Artesa de Segre it runs 453 km to Artesa de Segre; allow about 7 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció, Cueva de Revilla and back through Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Between the plains of Lleida and the first serious mountains of the Pyrenees there is a band of country that most people cross without noticing, and it is a mistake. The Cova del Cogulló lies here, in the hills of the Noguera between Artesa de Segre and the Montsec, a long limestone wall that rises abruptly from the farmland. Rock shelters in these hills carry prehistoric paintings, part of the Mediterranean rock art tradition that runs all along eastern Spain, and the region's churches add a medieval layer, small Romanesque buildings in nearly every village.
Read the complete Cova del Cogulló write-up.
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Cova del Cogulló is where the day begins. Next is Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció.
Valleys in the high Pyrenees of Catalonia and Aragon are full of small Romanesque churches, and the area around the Alta Ribagorça is among the richest. They were built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries by craftsmen working in what is called the Lombard style, with plain stone walls, round arches and tall, slender bell towers decorated with blind arcades, and they stand in villages that often have only a few houses.
Read the complete Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció write-up.
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Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció comes up about 116 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cueva de Revilla.
Revilla is one of the most spectacularly placed hamlets in the Spanish Pyrenees, perched on a ledge above the Garganta de Escuaín, a deep gorge cut into the limestone of the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. It looks down into the canyon from a terrace of meadows, with the high peaks behind. The Cueva de Revilla is a cave in the cliffs near the hamlet, and the area between Bielsa, Plan and Boltaña is some of the wildest country in Aragón.
Read the complete Cueva de Revilla write-up.
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about 223 km into the recorded legs you reach Cueva de Revilla. Next is back through Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció, late in the day. Next is Cova del Cogulló.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cova del Cogulló write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cova del Cogulló. That is the ride.
Cova del Cogulló → Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció → Cueva de Revilla is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cueva de Revilla → back through Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Eglésia de Santa Maria de l'Assumpció → Cova del Cogulló is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.